WORLD AT HIIS FEET
When he crossed a makeshift finish line in Athens on 10 November 2019, Nick Butter became the first person to have run a marathon in each of the 196 countries on Earth. His 674-day round-the-world adventure pushed the limits of physical, mental and logistical endurance. He ran through war zones, heatwaves, food poisoning and dog attacks, taking over 400 flights in the process. More importantly, he has raised over £200,000 for Prostate Cancer UK. A few months on from his extraordinary feat, Men’s Fitness caught up with Butter to find out what it takes to run the world.
Men’s Fitness: Never mind the running, the logistics of organising a marathon in every country on Earth must have been a mammoth undertaking. Talk us through some of the planning process.
“The planning period was around 18 months. We believed we needed about 220 flights, with 90 visas, and we were aiming for the whole thing to take 18 months. The end result was 23 months – exactly 674 days – and from that planned number of
